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Bring your family to 'Fun Day' at MLK Park

Submitted by Jay Jackson, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 11:23am
Bring your family to 'Fun Day' at MLK Park

PINE BLUFF, Arkansas – May 8, 2012 – On Saturday, May 19, 2012 beginning at 9am to 3 pm, the
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting their 6th Annual Sheriff’s Fun Day Event at the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Park located on Rhinehart Road in Pine Bluff.

Last year’s event, although a one-day event, was a success and its youth outreach effects were far-reaching, drawing hundreds to a day of free food, fun and entertainment.

The mission of Sheriff’s Fun Day, which Jefferson County Sheriff Gerald Robinson oversees, is to “share with the youth many of the necessities of life they are lacking-namely such as positive recreation and outreach programs in a controlled environment.”

Sheriff’s Fun Day is committed to positively impacting the lives of all youth to include those who are underprivileged. This event provides the youth in the community to interact with members of law enforcement and other partners in a positive controlled environment.

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Pine Bluff police searching for murder suspect

Submitted by Michelle Edmonds
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 5:36pm

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - Pine Bluff police officers suspect two men of shooting a man to death Thursday night.  One has turned himself in.

Officers were dispatched at approximately 9:45 p.m. to the 3100 block of Miramar where they found 29-year-old Randall Blake Jr, suffering from gunshot wounds.

Blake was transported to Jefferson Regional Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.

Police suspect 20-year-old Robert Neal and 28-year-old Antonio Alexander, both of Pine Bluff, in connection with this murder. Both men are considered armed and dangerous. 

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Owasoyo chosen to serve on study abroad panel

Submitted by Jay Jackson, Community Web Producer
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 2:16pm
Owasoyo chosen to serve on study abroad panel

PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Mrs. Philomena Owasoyo, International/Graduate Admissions Officer in the Office of Admissions was chosen to serve as a national selection panelist to review summer applications for the Gilman Scholarship Study Abroad Program.  

 

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants to undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens with limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad.  Such international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students for significant roles in an increasingly global and interdependent world.  Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and use the award to cover study abroad costs. 

 

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Adult Education students to receive GEDs May 15

Submitted by Jay Jackson, Community Web Producer
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 12:39pm
Adult Education students to receive GEDs May 15

PINE BLUFF, Ark. –  Students in the Adult Education Department at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) will receive their GED during the Arkansas High School Diploma Graduation ceremony Tuesday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sylvester Early Auditorium of Henderson-Young Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Honorees also include English as Second Language (ESL) students that represent 6 different countries and participants of the WAGE (Workforce Alliance for Growth in the Economy) program.

A reception will be held following the ceremony at UAPB Plaza, Suite #2 located 2003 North University Drive.

For more information, call (870)575-8202.

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Pine Bluff residents protesting police chief

Submitted by TodaysTHV Web Staff
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 6:03pm

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (KTHV) -- Protestors gather in front of city hall in Pine Bluff Friday to express outrage over the department's handling of evidence in the Cleashindra Hall murder case.

Hall disappeared 18 years ago May 11.   She was last seen at the home and office of Dr. Larry Amos on Faucett Road in Pine Bluff.

Amos' home was searched on March 29 after new leads developed, but police said they didn't send the evidence to the crime lab until earlier this week.

Pine Bluff Resident Erica Allen says she worked with Cleashindra Hall the day she disappeared back in 1994.

"I offered her a ride home." says Allen.

Allen says they worked in the home of Dr. Larry Amos.   Friday she protested in honor of her friend.

"The lack of detail is what we need to talk about." says Allen.

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Miss UAPB enters EBONY Campus Queen competition

Submitted by Jay Jackson, Community Web Producer
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 4:35pm
Miss UAPB enters EBONY Campus Queen competition

PINE BLUFF, Ark. – Jamie Rachelle Robbins, Miss University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) 2011-2012 has entered EBONY's annual HBCU Campus Queens competition for a chance to appear in the September 2012 issue where ten campus queens will grace the pages of the magazine. A native of Pine Bluff, she is the only campus queen in the State of Arkansas to enter the competition.

The daughter of Patricia Weatherly and Tony Thompson, Jamie was very active in high school and graduated in 2008 as salutatorian of her class at Dollarway High School.  As a senior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at UAPB, Jamie has had the opportunity to be an active member of various campus activities and organizations including the Honor Students Association; Alpha Rho Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; Zeta Nu Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, and the Student Government Association.

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St. Joseph School to remain open in Pine Bluff

Submitted by TodaysTHV Web Staff
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 12:15pm

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) - The Diocese of Little Rock says St. Joseph School in Pine Bluff will stay open for another year.

The high school and junior high had been slated for closure at the end of the current school year. But Most Rev. Anthony B. Taylor, bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock, announced the last black Catholic school in the state will keep its doors open for the 2012-13 academic year.

Taylor made the announcement at a graduation speech at the school Thursday night, and the diocese formalized the announcement on Friday.

Taylor had said the school needed to have 60 students preregistered and would need $200,000 in private donations. Fifty-one students have pre-enrolled and the school has raised $158,000. But the campus developed a balanced budget, which swayed Taylor.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

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